You can find Busbys on the LDS website familysearch.org. These appear to have a connection to the Christian Church in Bengal. They were there before 1850 and after 1878. Maybe if you know the approximate year of birth of your great-great-grand-father you can try to find the records of the Church where these Busby's worked or attended. There is a Christening of a Ann Busby in 1872 in the India Office Ecclesiastical Returns-Bengal Presidency, India. The problem would be ascertaining how many converts by them (if they were missionaries or a Minister's family), who took the name Busby. You would be extremely lucky if only one took the name. But if a few spaced out over time with an approximate age you may be able to find a candidate. Even better might be to find him in the Burmese records and see if there is any clue as to where he was recruited. This Busby family were in Calcutta, Thayetmyo, West Bengal, and Fort St. George, Madras, Tamil Nadu. Here's the link. http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Bond" <RichardBond@webtv.net> To: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:03 PM Subject: Re: East Indian Indenture Immigration W.I. Names/ Caste/ Bengali > My greatgreatgrandfather Alfred Busby (sp) was said to be a Burmese > Bengali immigrant via Calcutta. The British also used Bengali contract > labor early in the colonization of Burma and some descendants were > contracted again elsewhere. The name Busby was probably taken on > conversion. I wish I knew what it had been. > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > For information on individual islands, research aids, island bulletin boards or history please visit the CaribbeanGenWeb project at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw/ > >